An extension of parametric ROC analysis for calculating diagnostic accuracy when underlying distributions are mixture of Gaussian

Journal of Applied Statistics

Volumn 38, Issue 9, 2011, Pages 2009-2022

  Hajian Tilaki, Karimollah ^a   Hanley, James A ^b   Nassiri, Vahid ^c  

^a BABOL UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^b MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c VRIJE UNIVERSITEIT BRUSSEL   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Area under the curve; Binormal model; Extension; Mixture of Gaussian; Parametric ROC analysis; True positive fraction

Indexed keywords

EID: 79961141061     PISSN: 02664763     EISSN: 13600532     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/02664763.2010.545109     Document Type: Article

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